Love that the Colorado threads are thriving. See you at the Isle tomorrow.

Very reasonable juice -- I'll definitely give the tournaments a try if you keep it that way.

I've only tried your room briefly so far and mostly liked it -- except for the style of cards. One had to peel them up 50% just to see the suit (meaning the full sized suit, not the microfiche-sized one in the corner). I heard that you'd be replacing them with normal cards -- when's that happening?

Where are the best 1/2-100, 2/5-100 games usually @ on the weekends? Anyone know what the average stacks are @ these limits? What is rake like in Blackhawk? Thinking about heading up a bit over the next few weeks and was looking for any info anyone has.

Supposedly, the new cards shipped yesterday so we should have them soon.

Best,
Matt

Can't a mod merge the CO new limits thread with this one instead of just locking the new limits thread.


I'm going to Ameristar this weekend and I hope the games are so good that nobody has the opportunity to chop. If it does fold to the blinds, I'm hopeful Ameristar is now allowing chops.

games are good any day at Ameristar 2-100( average stack 200), 5-100( 500). You will find at least 5 tables running

Have you played @ the Isle? If so, how was it?

Not sure why we have to ditch a nearly 1200-reply thread for this one just because the other thread title is about the "new" limits. The other thread had some pretty good discussion and a lot of good information in it. Congrats, I guess, to whoever wanted a new thread title. Seems like it would've been easier and better to just change the old thread title.

It is nice room with smaller rake but low trafic but it should go up. Weekend should be nice

sounds good, prob ably going to head down for the day tomorrow if anyone else is going to be there or ameristar? Might play $300 tourney @ GG on Sunday too. Anyone else know how many this tourney usually gets?

For Omaha games Golden gates is the best bet and the new 10/20 is very nice and juicy( fish gets attracted by Omaha only BBJ and "the biggest game in the room" status; plus 5$/hr comps plus 10000$ monthly freeroll.
I am trying to make that game regular on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays.

Has the 10/20 Omaha game been running pretty regularly? If so, that's excellent. And with the $10K freeroll and $5/hr. carrots? Hopefully they keep all of carrots dangling for a while.

+1 on this. I mean, just go to the last page of the thread to get the latest...BFD. Or just have a Mod change the title. Whatever...we'll have to search I guess.

The Colorado Div. of Gaming has declared that chopping the blinds is now permitted for poker players in CO...like the rest of the world. LOL

Sometimes we wanna be different

Matt actually posted this as the last post in the other thread, not sure if everyone saw it, but its good I guess.

I'm moving to Denver in August to start work on my Ph.D. Think we can get a HORSE or a Stud game started at one of the casinos?

Highly doubt it id try they amirstar first , i heading up in a bit ill ask around

Yeah Ameristar would be your best bet, but it sounds like if you can find people to play, the Isle will spread anything.

AMERISTAR TRIP REVIEW: Saturday night, May 7th 2011 Just got back from black hawk this morning, spent all afternoon/evening yesterday playing 4/8.

Ameristar Black Hawk is a LOT of fun, super table action. Great service, looks like a big vegas hotel in the mountains. Excellent service from everyone. The poker supervisors like Eric and others were great guys, very friendly, answered all my questions. If I were to do it over, I'd go Wed/Thur nite since rack room rate is $99 vs the $199 I spent last night. Still pretty much worth it, got a 28th floor huge room w/decent view of the little city there. Not the same as Mandalay strip view lol but overall still very nice. Big spacious fancy bathrooms, soft beds, big flatscreen tv, though I only spent 5 hours in the room (to sleep, last night). The restaurant there has outstanding food and the manager, Todd, and his staff were great. Recommend the Reuben for lunch.

Only downside is no tournaments, I asked several poker supers and same answer: no space since they can fill tables with cash games, and I'm guessing they provide better rake per hour than tourney's rake does, so no tourneys on the schedule yet.

Played: 4/8 table from 2:30 pm til 1:15 am straight no breaks last night. Had coffee and water most of the time. Players were 1/2 retired regs in the afternoon/early evening, then some easy-fry fish early evening. Several donks wearing sunglasses. Once young guy looked like an internet poker dweeb with a hat and glasses on. Stared daggers at me whenever I took a pot (so did a couple retired guys, lol), he left after just 3-4 hours.

If you were there last night, I was the guy who rivered quad 7s against your KK777 full house. Priceless look on his face. He got up and left a couple orbs later. Looked like some college internet poker player kid. Fish fish fish.

Lessons learned:
#1) played ultra tight, only played 5-10% of hands, and that worked best. Sometimes I'd add to a sb with Kx Ax. Mostly played TAG strong hands, which meant I sat out multiple orbits paying my blinds. Takes a lot of patience. Maybe 1-2 strong hands an hour, at most, I slowplayed those heavy into the river/turn, was easy to trap.

#2) btw almost nobody buys in with 100BBs, usually just $80-$100 worth of chips at the 4/8, lots of white 1s and small stacks o reds. The 30/60 had big red stacks, looked more fun, wilder/looser table action though.

#3) lots of bad players, I couldn't believe it watching guys getting out cash to rebuy chips after losing. I won chips, had a big stack, never had to rebuy chips all night, and left with a profit; had two full racks+, it was easy. Don't know if the 30/60 table has tougher players (anyone?), the 4/8 was shooting fish in a barrel. Tipped dealers $1-2 per pot won.

Last night the tables were packed, lots of energy and excitement, great place, though I wish there was one like this closer to Denver without the drive up through the mountain roads. Suprisingly great service, huge property, it's a lot bigger in person than photos would appear, also very nice indoor pool/jacuzzis and fire pit/chairs up on the rooftop of this big hotel-casino. Not to mention they have the only Starbucks in Black Hawk at Ameristar. A++ I will be back.

And dudes - don't wear sunglasses indoors at a poker table, you look like complete morons. In fact I used a lot of reverse tells, like smiling like I had the nuts when I had KT or other lame starting pair, as if I had pocket aces. Way too easy to trap fish. I developed a rock table image so got a lot of folds whenever i went past the flop.

I remember felting a guy who had club flush K high and I had the 7/A club flush for the nuts, he was a sunglass-wearing dude who got really upset I cracked his K-hi flush, it was hilarious. He kept going on about how tough poker was to beat he never got a break wah wah wah who gives a crap, lose like a man, sparky. Sometimes I snap my fingers when I slap the nuts or trip As or whatever down, hard to resist tilting the newbs.

I know, "Don't tap the glass". It's just really funny sometimes to see the expression on their faces when they're tilted on a bad beat.

Anyone play the Ameristar 30/60? usually I've found more fish/retirees/donks at low limit tables, tougher competition at higher limits, common sense.

With your clearly superior talent, I definitely think the 30/60 is the place for you. Please post when you plan on going up to play!

bumhunters gonna bumhunt

My main point was that I really liked Ameristar and recommend it, it was a great experience with solid service. Need to check out others too like lounge/isle.

I just have a hard time playing at the Ameristar because on weekend nights it is soooo loud in there, it makes it much harder for me to focus on playing. Thats what I love about the Isle, no casino noise.

What lounge are you talking about? I've seen you mention it a couple times.

sry should've said the lodge, here's all their casinos
http://www.blackhawkcolorado.com/